Samah Hijazi is a data science researcher who received her M.S. degree in Computer Sciences and Risk Management from the Lebanese University. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. titled “Sparse Representation and Active Learning for Marine Ecology” jointly between the Lebanese University and Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale in France. Her research interests include Machine Learning, Open Data, Pattern Recognition and Data Mining. In these areas, she is focusing on feature selection as a tool for dimensionality reduction and is passionate about making sense of such high-dimensional data since its visualization often requires a space of way more than the three dimensions we live in and perceive. Samah believes that we are living in an era of fast research advancements in artificial intelligence, so she aims at building algorithms that can use open data to find new insights, extract knowledge, and bring value to humans.